Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
GARY OLDMANBut you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
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I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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On set I keep myself to myself; I’d rather the director speak up. I’m not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can’t shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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